Günter Grass was born on October 16, 1927 in Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]. He was a writer, known for The Tin Drum (1979), Television Theater (1953) and The Call of the Toad (2005). He was married to Ute Grunert and Anna Margareta Schwartz. He died on April 13, 2015 in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.